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Columbian Exhibition with von Helmholtz, 

 and was a member of the International Con- 

 ference on Electrical Units and Standards, 

 which met in London in 1908. 



The death is announced at the age of sev- 

 enty-four years of the Eev. Henry C. Mc- 

 Cook, D.D., a leading Presbyterian clergy- 

 man of Philadelphia, known also for his 

 popular scientific publications on entomology. 



Dr. Antoine Blatin, former professor of 

 physiology at the Ecole de medecine de Cler- 

 mont, has died at the age of seventy-two years. 



The twentieth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Psychological Association will be held in 

 Washington on Wednesday, Thursday and 

 Friday, December 27, 28 and 29. Hotel head- 

 quarters will be at the Ebbitt House. A 

 symposium on the demarcation of the distinct 

 difference between " Instinct and Intelli- 

 gence " will be opened by Dr. Marshall. Pro- 

 fessor Herrick, Professor Yerkes and Pro- 

 fessor Judd have already completed the prepa- 

 ration of their contributions to this sym- 

 posium. Papers on the experimental study 

 of animal behavior will be read before a joint 

 session with Section F of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science and 

 the society will unite with Section L for one 

 session devoted to reports of research in edu- 

 cational psychology. The committee on ex- 

 periments useful in teaching psychology (class 

 and home experiments) will have some defi- 

 nite results of their year's work to present to 

 the association. Plans are brewing for a 

 program on psychology in its relations to 

 medical education. The proposal meets with 

 the hearty approval of such representative edu- 

 cators as Drs. Adolf Meyer, Donaldson and 

 Prince. An exhibit of apparatus is being ar- 



The American Physiological Society will 

 hold its twenty-fourth annual meeting in 

 Baltimore and Washington during convoca- 

 tion week, beginning December 26, 1911. The 

 society will hold joint sessions in Baltimore 

 with the American Society of Biological 

 Chemists and with the American Society for 

 Pharmacology and Experimental Thera- 



peutics, and in Washington with Section K, 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. In Baltimore the place of 

 meeting will be the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School. 



The tentative program for the sessions of 

 Section D at the Washington meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in convocation week is as follows: 

 Wednesday, December 27. 



Miscellaneous papers. 

 Thursday, December 28. 



Morning session. Papers on aeronautics and re- 

 lated topics. 

 Afternoon session. Address of Professor A. 

 Lawrence Eotch, retiring vice-president of the 

 section. Subject: "Aerial Engineering." 

 Friday, December 29. 



Morning and afternoon sessions. Papers on 

 highway engineering. 

 Saturday, December 30. 



Highway inspection trips, in charge of Professor 

 A. H. Blanchard. 



Members of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science expecting to con- 

 tribute to the program of Section D should 

 so advise G. W. Bissell, secretary, East Lan- 

 sing, Mich., as soon as practicable and pre- 

 ferably not later than December 1. Blanks 

 for titles and abstracts will be furnished by 

 the secretary on request. 



The annual meeting of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations, will be held at Columbus, 0., 

 from November 15 to 17. Societies meeting 

 in affiliation are the Society for the Promo- 

 tion of Agricultural Science, American So- 

 ciety of Agronomy, American Farm Manage- 

 ment Association and the American Society 

 of Animal Nutrition on November 13 and 14; 

 American Association of Farm Institute 

 Workers, November 13 to 15, and Association 

 of Feed Control Officials of the IJ. S., No- 

 vember 17 and 18. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has turned over $25,- 

 000,000 in first mortgage bonds of the United 

 States Steel Corporation to the Carnegie Cor- 

 poration of New York, the body which was 

 incorporated by the legislature on June 9 of 



